WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement as part of a Sept. 22, 2021, hybrid hearing on nominations for the Merit Systems Protection Board. The nominees are Cathy A. Harris to be a member and chair, and Tristan L. Leavitt and Raymond A. Limon to be members. * * * Welcome, Ms. Harris, Mr. Leavitt, and Mr. Limon. I appreciate you being here today. You three have been nominated to the Merit Systems Protection Board, a more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement as part of a Sept. 21, 2021, hybrid hearing entitled "Threats to the Homeland: Evaluating the Landscape 20 Years After 9/11": * * * We are here today, twenty years after the devastating attack of 9/11, to examine the evolution of the threat landscape since that fateful day. In 2001, the Taliban provided a safe haven for al Qaeda in Afghanistan to launch a devastating attack  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement as part of a Sept. 23, 2021, hybrid hearing entitled "National Cybersecurity Strategy: Protection of Federal and Critical Infrastructure Systems": * * * Thank you, Chairman Peters for convening this hearing to continue our bipartisan oversight of Federal cybersecurity. We are here today to discuss the Federal Government's strategy for protecting our cyber networks and critic more PR